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by Dan Sicoli |
skipper smokes drinks studies the forms drinks smokes takes 30 to 1 red face callous hard nose backwoods factory boy carries his bank account bound with a rubber band "i can change anything but your name" yeah, so easy going it's hard not knowing when you're a 59-year-old week-to-weeker filterless tobacco dangles from his lip as he tops off a "fill'er up!" and deeply inhales mixed fumes on slow warm days he sits back between pumps as ghosts of '78 return from the railroad tracks his car stalled on the crossing so drunk he thought he'd forgotten his keys and stumbled out on the dark road cursing through an ill-fated search when a train approached he was nearly a half mile away the smashed buick he could accept but his passed out drinking buddy well, he'd have to haul that sin to marble stone his roads now have become sidewalks he smokes steals a nip studies the forms calls in a long shot "can't make any real money betting the favorites" he confesses to his boss's customers
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